By Dayo Benson
AHEAD of the August 2017 annual conference of the Nigeria Bar Association NBA, a website for the registration of participants has been officially unveiled even as online registration kicked off midnight Friday, June 23, 2017.
The event which took place at the Ikeja Bar centre of the NBA branch, was attended by the NBA President Mr A.B Mahmoud SAN, NBA General Secetary Isiaka Olagunju, conference technical organizing committee chairman, Prof. Koyinsola Ajayi, SAN, Mr. Segun Ajibola, SAN, Mr Dele Adesina, SAN and other senior lawyers as well as executive members of Ikeja and Ikorodu branches of NBA.
Speaking at the event, Prof. Ajayi stated that the aim of the conference is to make the lawyers better professionals, businessmen and persons. He lamented that the legal profession is older than accounting profession but pointed out that accountants are better organized than lawyers, stating that the conference “seeks to build law firms into institutions”.
Ajayi promised that the forth coming conference would be one that every lawyer would enjoy and not a “conference of pain.” “Every member of the profession who registers for the conference will be empowered with a tablet containing law reports in the country and abroad for a year.” The committee is expected to take delivery of 10,000 tablets.
In his remarks the NBA president Mahmoud said that this year’s conference “is going to be unique”, adding that there is need to build strong institutions that will protect all. According to him the event will feature business conference, and there will be transformation of the legal profession.
He called on law firms to support young lawyers to enable them attend the conference, and thanked the technical organizing committee chairman prof Ajayi, for providing leadership for the conference planning.
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